From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11232c,14aae54b2a5f9c96 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 10ed7b,14aae54b2a5f9c96 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed7b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,700e3c547aedfa54 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-02 11:53:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!news.mailgate.org!mygate.mailgate.org!198.207.153.205!not-for-mail From: "Kent Paul Dolan" Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Divide NOT? (sort of still): Continentalizing the UK (still): Waay OT - America (was: Ada?) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:53:24 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG Message-ID: <01158380483854f3a45ac0f1949f1482.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> References: <6f07b246012ce00b048b501ff038bbf8.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> <1017484307.4053.0@eos.uk.clara.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.207.153.205 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.mailgate.org 1017756032 16683 198.207.153.205 (Tue Apr 2 21:53:24 2002) X-Complaints-To: abuse@mailgate.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:53:24 +0000 (UTC) Injector-Info: news.mailgate.org; posting-host=198.207.153.205; posting-account=48257; posting-date=1017756032 User-Agent: Mailgate Web Server X-URL: http://mygate.mailgate.org/mynews/talk/talk.bizarre/01158380483854f3a45ac0f1949f1482.48257%40mygate.mailgate.org Xref: archiver1.google.com talk.bizarre:20974 comp.lang.ada:22015 misc.misc:6013 Date: 2002-04-02T19:53:24+00:00 List-Id: "Philip Anderson" wrote: Umm, on the basis of land bridges, North America is a part of Asia; I don't think that works. > More > to the point, there is no cultural divide (except in the minds of some > Little Englanders). France, with the most impoverished language probably on the planet, some 60,000 words, and kept that way by force of law, as it would otherwise evolve to catch up with the rest of the planet, sits on one end of the chunnel, and England, with a 2.5 million word language, sits on the other. Granted that's more of a cultural _chasm_ than a cultural divide, I must beg to disagree that the two sides have much in common besides joint and cotemperaneous use of battlefields. xanthian. -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG